Exclusive: Mirendil inks $100M+ Google Cloud deal to scale self-improving AI | TechCrunch

Last day to exhibit your breakthrough to 10,000+ tech leaders at Disrupt is on Oct 2. Book Exhibit Table Now. Disrupt doors open Oct. 13. Get your pass and bring someone with you at 50% off. REGISTER NOW. AI lab Mirendil has signed a multiyear partnership with Google Cloud to source compute capacity for its self-improving AI research, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. The deal mirrors two trends shaping the AI industry: Cloud giants are courting startups with huge infrastructure commitments, and AI companies are snatching up as many compute deals as they can to secure access as they scale. The deal is worth upward of $100 million, Mirendil’s co-founder and CEO, Behnam Neyshabur, told TechCrunch. That’s roughly half of what Mirendil raised in seed funding at a $1 billion valuation in late June. The deal gives the startup access to both Google’s TPUs and Nvidia GPUs, as well as managed training clusters with which Mirendil will work on its self-improving AI. The startup hopes its AI will eventually be able to take on the work of an entire frontier AI lab. Self-improving AI, also known as recursive self-improvement, refers to AI systems that iteratively improve themselves. It’s a co